def input(password):
while password[0] == '#' or password[-1] == '#':
print("Your password contains '#' in either the first or last character, please try again.")
password = str(input("Please create a password:\n"))
return True
print(input(password))
Why does this code not ask the user to reenter a new password so it can text the condition of the while loop again and instead just returns True?
There’s a bit of missing information:
How are you invoking this function, and with what argument? If invoked correctly it should work.
Also, it’s not good to name the function input since it’s a reserved word (you even use input method within this function… which would make this… recursive? But I think this is unintentional).
Example (this would work):
def inp(password):
while password[0] == '#' or password[-1] == '#':
print("Your password contains '#' in either the first or last character, please try again.")
password = str(input("Please create a password:\n"))
return True
inp("#test")
That worked, in the code above I initially prompt the user for an input. I haven’t gotten that far into the program where I have invoked the functions. I’ve just been testing them one at a time and hit a wall with this one.
Thank You!
My follow up question would be:
So I have multiple functions that return True if they fit the criteria of the conditional statement within the function. How could I write a while loop /if statement that would test what each function returns and if it returns false to rerun all of the functions again.
Honestly you’d just have to hunker down and try it. I find it really helps to map it out on paper (using just words/pseudocode). The first step is just to get it to work. Afterwards you could think about how to re-factor it so that it’s more efficiently written.
Sounds. good, I’ll try a bunch of different things.
Thank you!
